A note on some polynomial-factorial diophantine equations
Abstract
In 1876 Brocard, and independently in 1913 Ramanujan, asked to find all integer solutions for the equation . It is conjectured that this equation has only three solutions, but up to now this is an open problem. Overholt observed that a weak form of Szpiro's-conjecture implies that Brocard's equation has finitely many integer solutions. More generally, assuming the ABC-conjecture, Luca showed that equations of the form where of degree have only finitely many integer solutions with . And if is irreducible, Berend and Harmse proved unconditionally that has only finitely many integer solutions. In this note we study diophantine equations of the form where of degree and where for one may also plug in or the Bhargava factorial . We want to understand when there are finitely many or infinitely many integer solutions. Moreover, we study diophantine equations of the form where is a homogeneous polynomial of degree .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2308.11002,
title = {A note on some polynomial-factorial diophantine equations},
author = {Saša Novaković},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.11002},
year = {2023}
}
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